All processors boast 100 MHz higher clock speeds compared to their predecessors. In addition, Intel lowered the price of its existing Core i3-4360 SKU from $149 to $138, and the price of the Pentium G3450 from $86 to $75.

New Pentium products are produced on 22nm manufacturing process, and they come with 2 CPU cores, running at 2.8 GHz - 3.5 GHz. The Pentiums have 3 MB of L3 cache, integrated HD graphics, and they support VT-x Virtualization and SSE4. The Pentium G3250 and G3460 have 53 Watt TDP, whereas the G3250T and G3450T are rated at 35 Watt.

Core i3 microprocessors add support for Hyper-threading feature. They have their GPUs upgraded to HD 4400 on the i3-41xx series, and to HD 4600 on the i3-43xx series. The CPUs also support more advanced AES and AVX/AVX2 instructions.